Poetry - Verses and Hues

16 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 16: A Letter to My Love

The prompt for Day 16 of NaPoWriMo is to take an inspiration from the act of letter-writing. The poem can be in the form of a letter to a person, place, or thing, or in the form of a back-and-forth correspondence. ...

#broken, #heart, #letter, #love, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #nostalgia, #poetrychallenge

15 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 15: Stranded

We are half way through NaPoWriMo. So the prompt for today is to write a poem that reflects on the nature of being in the middle of something. The poem could be about being on a journey and stopping for a break,...

#inspiration, #lost, #middle, #monthly feature, #motivation, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #optimism, #poetrychallenge, #stranded, #uncertainty, #vagueness

14 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 14: Clerihew Quadruplet

The prompt for NaPoWriMo for today is to write a clerihew. This is a four line biographical poem that satirizes a famous person. The first line is the name of the poem’s subject, usually a famous person put in an absurd light,...

#apple, #Bill gates, #clerihew, #fun, #humour, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #queen, #steve jobs, #Tagore

13 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 13: Haibun

The prompt for NaPoWriMo for today has not yet been uploaded so I followed the prompt shared by Colleen for her Weekly Poetry Challenge #28 which requires words “hard” & “soft” or their synonyms to be used in a haiku, tanka...

#aqua, #enigma, #haibun, #haiku, #horizon, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #nature, #ocean, #poetrychallenge, #sea, #water

12 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 12: Strange Subjects

The prompt for today is to write a poem that explicitly incorporates alliteration (the use of repeated consonant sounds) and assonance (the use of repeated vowel sounds). This doesn’t mean necessarily limiting yourself to a few consonants or vowels, although...

#alliteration, #materialistic, #money, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #questions, #strange, #subjects

11 Apr

NaPoWrimo Day 11: Tanka

Here’s another Tanka inspired by Weekly Tanka Challenge – Week 39 with prompt “Old & New” that serves my second submission for NaPoWriMo Day 11 old rules of new game new rules of the same old game some variations some sluggish...

#5lines, #game, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #new, #old, #past, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #weeklytankachallenge -39

11 Apr

Tanka: Old Vs. New

old generation ardently welcomes new breed accedes hopefully a new perspective of life only to be ostracized Inspired by the prompt “Old and New” of Weekly Tanka Challenge #39. This is also my submission towards Day 11...

#5lines, #generation, #life, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #new, #old, #perspective, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #weeklytankachallenge -39

10 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 10: Portrait of My Child

The prompt for the tenth day of NaPoWriMo is to write a poem that is a portrait of someone important to you. It doesn’t need to focus so much on what a person looks (or looked) like, as what they...

#child, #innocence, #love, #mother, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #portrait, #son

09 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 9: Prisoner of Time

Let’s rekindle the spirit of “Optimism”, our theme for the monthly feature , while adhering to the prompt of NaPoWriMo. Because today is the ninth day of NaPoWriMo, we have been challenged to write a nine-line poem. Here’s my offering for...

#inspiration, #monthly feature, #motivation, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #optimism, #positivity, #prisoner, #time, #winner

08 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 8: Desires

The prompt for the eighth day of NaPoWrimo/GloPoWrimo is to write a poem that relies on repetition. It can be repetition of a phrase, or just a word. I have given weightage to a phrase. Infinite desires Myriad aspirations Some...

#aspiration, #character, #desire, #injustice, #mind, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #rules, #trapped

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